Old-Fashioned Vanilla Frosting for Cakes {Powdered Sugar Frosting}

Final Notes for the Homemade Vanilla Frosting Recipe

➡️ Vanilla cake belongs to some of the most popular homemade cake recipes. As a result, there are available lots of vanilla cake recipes with or without a cream filling. Additionally, there are many home cake recipes that use icing or frosting for garnishing. Most of you are, probably, familiar with frosting for cake prepared with butter. However, icing can be made without butter as well.

➡️ Making vanilla frosting for cakes without butter is very easy. The entire process is very quick and the recipe doesn’t require many ingredients. Actually, this vanilla icing recipe is one of the easiest homemade frosting recipes, it requires very few ingredients, and the preparation time is very short. As a result, it’s a very good choice when you want to make a quick icing for the cake you are just baking.

➡️ Please don’t be confused between vanilla buttercream frosting and this frosting recipe. Frosting with buttercream is a completely different recipe and requires butter and, sometimes, thermal processing.

➡️ Despite its simplicity, the vanilla frosting recipe for cakes is very useful! It will enable you to make quickly an icing that looks very good after hardening! Additionally, the icing gives more flavor to the cake that you make at home.

➡️ Most often, I use this vanilla frosting recipe when I make bundt cakes or cupcakes, or muffins. Of course, it can be used for many other homemade cakes.

➡️ Besides vanilla flavor, this icing can be prepared with another aroma as well. Just replace vanilla essence with lemon, orange, mint, almond, or any other flavor and you get an icing with that specific taste.

➡️ The most important piece of advice to make this icing recipe with great results is to combine very well ingredients to obtain a smooth mixture without lumps. Basically, you have to dissolve sugar completely and that’s the secret to making a very fine frosting!